Viña Zorzal’s Golerga 2024 is a village-designated Garnacha from Lerga in Navarra, a bottling the producer positions as its first “vino de pueblo.” The point here is specificity: Lerga sits in Baja Montaña looking toward the Pyrenees, and Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate describes it as “cooler and with mountain character,” with vineyards “around 600 meters above sea level” in a zone of “more rain, altitude and latitude,” making it “one of the coolest places for Garnacha.”

The Wine Advocate review by Luis Gutiérrez is an excellent one at 95 points and includes unusually detailed production notes. He reports that “some 80% of the volume fermented by plot in open-top pools with 20% full clusters,” while the remainder was “destemmed and crushed” in stainless steel. The wine then “matured in a combination of 500-liter barrels and concrete.” Despite a rainy harvest—“It rained a lot during the harvest, and they had to sort and select more”—Gutiérrez emphasizes that the result “has good ripeness but with great balance,” adding that it “feels more Atlantic, from cooler climate.” He also notes “very good freshness,” “very fine tannins,” and calls it “very elegant.” Production was limited to “6,380 bottles,” bottled in May 2025.

Vinous delivers another excellent score at 96 points, highlighting “notable aromatic intensity” with “dark elderberry tones, herbs and black fruit,” plus “hints of rosehip… blood orange.” The magazine finds it “delicate in texture yet full of flavor,” with a “long and lightly grippy” finish and “impressive energy and persistence.”

James Suckling scores it 93, pointing to a more savory register—“green peppers, acorns and dried flowers with underbrush”—and describes a “bright and linear” palate with “precise tannins” and a “firm, austere yet delicate finish.” Overall, Golerga reads as a cool-climate Garnacha built on freshness, structure, and site expression rather than sweetness or weight.